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chamchagiri

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Sycophancy, flattery.

India, informal, uncountable

Examples

People are unhappy if you are doing well and happy when you are sitting idle at home. I think that I’ve always been a soft target for controversies maybe because I have not gelled well or should I say ‘I did not do chamchagiri’.”
“I was exposed shockingly to the great Indian chamchagiri culture at the age of 19 when I started off with my three-year internship at an MNC. […] What’s more, the chamchagiri came from her own creed who underwent a pupate transformation in front of her bosses.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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